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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 633

Six: Petty Officer G. Metherell, Royal Navy
1939-1945 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; War Medal, contact marks, nearly very fine, mounted court-style for display purposes, together with the following related items:
- Two presentation 'Oars', silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1934), each 205mm long, the blades engraved 'Hood 1935 Rodman Cup Cutter 2nd, G. Metherell, A.B.' and 'Hood 1935 Seaman A Cutter 1st. G. Metherell, A.B.' respectively, both on display mount
- Royal Life Saving Society bronze medal, reverse engraved 'Awarded to G. Metherell Sept. 1929.'
- The recipient's Gunnery History Sheet
- Certificate for Wounds and Hurts
- A large selection of photographs, both groups and individual (6)

P/JX134204 Petty Officer George Metherell, born Portsmouth, 1915; enlisted in the Royal Navy, 1929; served in H.M.S. Hood, and part of the Hood's Seamen's Racing Cutter team that won the Home Fleet Seamen's Racing Cutters Cup, and finished 2nd in the Rodman Cup; served during the Second World War as Chief Boatswain's Mate in H.M.S. Tuscan, August 1943 to January 1945; injured, 17.2.1944, when 'a wave swept over the deck of the Tuscan carrying this rating with it. Bruising was caused by his being swept against the depth charges and guard rails. He was in the water for about 20 minutes' (Certificate of Wounds and Hurts refers).

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